The Happiest Dog Rescue Stories | The Dodo

I saw them bringing them out of his camera and he didn't want to walk. He couldn't hear. He couldn't see out of one eye. So you can just tell him that's really confused. Hey buddy, boy. He's probably 15 or 16. Come on, bud. I assume he was surrounded because he had cancer. All right, guys. We're trying to get up, bud. I'm sorry. You can't come all the way up into the front seat. I'm sorry. I remember the expression on his face. You could just feel his pain. Hey, big man. Can I come sit back? I believe he's so. Thank you, sir. But he's a very old super senior. He has some cancerous growth. Breathing with. We think what he doing. He was not doing well. I could hear a labor breathing. I could see him shaking. He really is a good boy. I'm going to give him more space so he can lay down. All right. We almost got stuck in the car. All right, bro. You ready to do this, my man? So my original assessment was, I don't know if he's going to make it very long. I just wanted to get him home. Get him loved and to give him a good last couple days, couple weeks. All right, gang, we have arrived home with our boy. And I'm going to introduce him to the rest of the family. But he's a sweet boy. He's happy to be home. You want to come see how do we? Can you get up on him? He had a really hard time standing up. You're at the gang. So I thought did you give Henry a kiss on his head? Let me see if he can get him. When you tried to move him, he was in pain. They ain't doing blood. But it was literally touching the first time to sleep. The one made him boy. He kind of popped away from his leg. Okay. I can do this. Go. And, no surprisingly, he just got better almost by the hour. So we're here at the vet. We're just stopping him off. They're going to remove that testicular cancer. Hi, my boy. My boy. Our boy is overly excited to see me. I'm doing very, very, very well. It was a pretty radical turn around. Every day he would add something to his repertoire. Big jump. One morning he just followed me up this day. I'm going to do it. Come on, buddy. Come on, buddy. Come on, buddy. Every morning he'd do this little gal. He's got a good one. He's got a good one. Every day he'd got a little bit more. He'd get a little more ampunch. He starts to do a little circle on the yard. He's got one move. He's got the ball. That's how he can strike directly on the empathy cord. I think the key variable to every success is just being part of the family. He can't even see me here. Maybe he wasn't much of a part of his last family, but you can tell. Whenever he'd see me, he would kind of perk up. He'd already look at this after all the time. What do you mean, buddy? What do you mean? He was just totally reborn. So, about a month and a half then, we realize he's not just a couple days or a couple of week, a five-spista. And believe her not, we started to get adoption applications for him. Folks know that he's heading towards the end of his life. A lot of folks who wonder how you bring an animal into your life and let it go. And it is challenging and you do fall in love, but it's very easy to delineate between the value of keeping him in our family and letting him go. We already have our next foster god come in his name's dancing. Henry, we're home. What will happen is he'll get to go spend his remaining days with his family and get to get them a whole bunch of love. He's going to go out of this world surrounded by love, which is all we could ever ask for. He has made our lives richer while we've had him. And he's going to make the lives of folks who adopt and richer. Touching Symba after his capture is probably one of the first ever positive experiences he's had with the human. You can tell by his body language how conflicted he was. He really wanted love, but he had just no idea how to accept it or what to do with it. I go pushy. I'm doing it quick, what I do is pushy. Food was definitely the way to Symba's heart. He would play good play. It's good play with me. So he said, all right, where there's food all go. He went from this totally heralous coyote to just a complete fluffy line and so quickly. He looked at this beautiful, perfect dog. And we had no idea really that internal trauma we were going to be working through. Taking care of him at our facility was not easy. How do you care for a dog that you can't touch? It became pretty clear that Symba wanted love but just had no idea how to receive it. Got to a point where he wasn't making any more progress in the kennels. And I figured, all right buddy, let's give this a shot, you and me. It was his first time living in a home. It was like seeing the shot of water. I remember the first time I tried to get him up on the couch. What do you think, big boy? He was too uncomfortable to have anything other than all four feet on the ground. That slowly changed where he would learning that. He can do something like smoke but nervous. It's our student who's a little awkward hug. This is the only time where he was comfortable taking a paw off the ground. I'll never forget the day that he just ran up, jumped on, jumped to my lap. He just seemed as first time ever being followed by the couch. Are you a cow? That was a huge turning point for him, confidence wise. Did I live in a house? It helps. Okay, okay. Okay. He had just years of missing out that he was making up for. Getting comfortable days in the home was standing on me. A feet in and of itself. You make favor. You let's walk down and see what he does. He's not gonna see. I'm gonna take it home. I'll just sit. I'll just sit. I'll just sit. I'll just sit. Can you make it friends? Can you make it friends? Can you make it friends? What? What? But that is not the end of our journey. We are still going on a little field trip trying to build his confidence. If you want to go for a walk? Yeah. Have his, do not pet harness. His, do not pet. We're really working on just walking. I'm just slowly showing him that the world isn't such a scary place. At first it was just a car ride. Getting you skating in the car. What? What? I'm feeling the wind in his fur. Thanks for the wrap. I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of you. I have had over 20 dogs. I have had over 20 dogs passed in my house in the last six months alone as Fosters. And I have two big rough and tumble dogs in my own. They're a little wild for some of this speed. He deserves somewhere that is steady and stable and consistent. It's your puppy. More heat be the center of the universe. I think Simba has his perfect home out there. What do you think, dude? Although he's a little bit misunderstood, he's really the best way I love him to death. He's so cute. He's so cute. He's so cute. He's so cute. He's so cute. He's so cute. The puppy chinos are always his reward for being a brave boy all day. I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of you.